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Table 324.25. Doctor's degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: Academic years 2019-20 and 2020-21
Field of study 2019-20 2020-21
Total White Black Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander American
Indian/Alaska
Native
Two or
more
races
Nonresident Total White Black Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander American
Indian/Alaska
Native
Two or
more
races
Nonresident
Total Asian Pacific
Islander
Total Asian Pacific
Islander
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
   All fields, total 190,133 107,823 15,719 14,865 21,609 21,308 301 674 5,498 23,945 194,059 108,082 17,041 16,465 22,533 22,258 275 690 5,769 23,479
Agriculture and natural resources1 4,884 3,329 120 346 230 226 4 17 135 707 4,869 3,393 138 348 227 223 4 17 135 611
Architecture and related services 252 83 12 13 24 23 1 0 1 119 255 78 9 15 19 17 2 0 4 130
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies 334 130 63 37 19 19 0 6 14 65 268 108 40 32 18 16 2 6 14 50
Biological and biomedical sciences 7,899 4,122 288 509 711 704 7 16 226 2,027 7,486 3,936 267 558 670 665 5 20 212 1,823
Business2 3,443 1,401 806 206 183 178 5 17 78 752 3,711 1,480 1,004 239 175 172 3 14 91 708
                                         
Communication, journalism, and related programs 602 320 39 27 25 24 1 0 16 175 532 267 42 22 25 25 0 3 21 152
Communications technologies 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Computer and information sciences and support services 2,415 660 103 54 149 146 3 2 49 1,398 2,572 654 144 78 182 181 1 1 31 1,482
Education 13,051 7,507 2,742 1,195 496 461 35 59 287 765 13,655 7,436 3,227 1,270 560 519 41 73 340 749
Engineering 11,144 3,000 173 340 745 743 2 7 147 6,732 10,890 2,936 180 370 685 682 3 8 176 6,535
                                         
Engineering technologies3 143 72 8 2 16 16 0 0 0 45 205 72 20 1 23 23 0 1 0 88
English language and literature/letters 1,285 929 75 71 47 45 2 3 45 115 1,079 733 63 69 42 41 1 6 39 127
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences 281 158 22 13 8 8 0 0 7 73 233 107 32 21 10 10 0 2 14 47
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics 1,162 532 17 128 50 49 1 2 17 416 985 415 21 122 40 40 0 2 23 362
Health professions and related programs 82,466 49,116 6,388 6,082 15,168 15,007 161 261 2,685 2,766 85,581 49,832 6,848 7,152 16,007 15,862 145 278 2,758 2,706
                                         
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting 263 149 56 23 3 2 1 2 5 25 239 139 60 20 3 2 1 0 7 10
Legal professions and studies 34,450 22,426 2,906 4,177 2,258 2,207 51 201 1,135 1,347 35,976 23,651 2,774 4,381 2,405 2,362 43 182 1,252 1,331
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and
   humanities
114 73 16 9 4 4 0 1 2 9 90 51 18 8 2 2 0 1 3 7
Library science 29 12 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 15 12 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Mathematics and statistics 2,021 663 33 58 125 124 1 1 32 1,109 1,958 649 26 75 109 109 0 1 33 1,065
                                         
Military technologies and applied sciences 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies 990 512 86 60 48 48 0 7 34 243 1,055 550 83 73 60 58 2 3 19 267
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and kinesiology 349 231 22 22 8 8 0 2 13 51 326 203 28 17 10 9 1 0 14 54
Philosophy and religious studies 694 466 36 50 30 30 0 1 16 95 627 395 45 38 28 28 0 1 10 110
Physical sciences and science technologies 5,969 2,857 82 243 309 307 2 8 135 2,335 5,709 2,554 105 279 279 278 1 8 129 2,355
                                         
Precision production 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Psychology 6,327 4,137 621 636 386 375 11 23 227 297 6,363 3,936 708 687 370 362 8 33 247 382
Public administration and social services 1,409 643 358 124 61 57 4 13 29 181 1,435 587 423 130 87 84 3 10 45 153
Social sciences and history 4,436 2,263 187 260 215 212 3 16 96 1,399 4,160 1,955 209 257 202 198 4 9 87 1,441
  Social sciences 3,597 1,673 153 201 191 188 3 13 72 1,294 3,468 1,506 177 197 188 184 4 8 72 1,320
  History 839 590 34 59 24 24 0 3 24 105 692 449 32 60 14 14 0 1 15 121
                                         
Theology and religious vocations 1,984 1,061 413 84 152 147 5 6 28 240 2,100 1,042 478 112 174 169 5 8 30 256
Transportation and materials moving 20 12 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 4 20 12 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 6
Visual and performing arts 1,716 959 45 95 136 135 1 3 39 439 1,668 903 47 90 121 121 0 3 35 469
Other and not classified 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1Includes Agricultural, animal, plant, veterinary science, and related fields; and Natural resources and conservation.
2Includes Business, management, marketing, and related support services; and Culinary, entertainment, and personal services.
3Includes Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields; Construction trades; and Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians.
NOTE: Data in this table represent the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Data are for postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Reported racial/ethnic distributions of students by level of degree, field of study, and sex were used to estimate race/ethnicity for students whose race/ethnicity was not reported. Data in this table are based on the 2020 Classification of Instructional Programs. To facilitate trend comparisons, certain aggregations have been made of the degree fields as reported in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Some data have been revised from previously published figures.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2020 and Fall 2021, Completions component. (This table was prepared September 2022.)

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